ARTICLES
Due to the recentness of this topic, much of the scholarship has taken the form of journal articles, especially the most
Many of these articles can be found full-text on-line through InfoTrac or the Latin American Data Base. InfoTrac and the Latin American Data Base are introduced in the abstracts/indexes section of this pathfinder.
The articles below are arranged chronologically. See the list following these articles for recommended journals.
"Fatal Attraction: Peru's Shining Path." NACLA Report on the Americas 24:9-39 (Dec 1990/Jan 1991).
Entire issue (6 articles) devoted to Sendero Luminoso. Excellent ideological, economic and political background of the guerrilla movement.
Call #: F1401 .N58
Location: Davis Library, 4th
floor.
Mauceri, Philip. "Military Politics and Counter-Insurgency in Peru." Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 33 (Winter 1991): 83-109.
Concentrates on the role of the military and its transformation from leaders in the government under Velasco to the underdogs in the fight against the guerrillas.
Call #: F1401 .J68
Location: Davis Library, 4th
floor.
Guillermoprieto, Alma. "Down
the Shining Path: Letter from Lima." The New Yorker 68/51
(8 Feb. 1993): 64-74.
Written after the arrest of Guzmán, Guillermoprieto does an outstanding job of analyzing his transformation from philosophy student to terrorist. Extremely readable and engrossing, she humanizes the man behind the bloodbath.
Call #: AP2 .N6763
Location: Davis Library, 2nd floor.
Undergraduate Library, alphabetical by title, 1st floor.
Starn, Orin. "Maoism in the Andes: The Communist Party of Peru-Shining Path and the Refusal of History." Journal of Latin American Studies 27/2 (May 1993): 399-421.
Starn dismisses the theory espoused by some Senderologists that Sendero considers Peruvian culture and Andean traditions in its manifesto. In fact, it shows an apathy towards Peruvian history and instead focuses on class struggle and the international aspects of staging a revolution.
Call #: F1401 .J69 (from v. 29
(1997) in the print version)
Location: InfoTrac: Expanded Academic
ASAP, full text.
Kent, Robert B.
"Geographical Dimension of the Shining Path Insurgency in Peru." The
Geographical Review 83/4 (Oct 1993): 441-454 Thoroughly discusses the expansion of Sendero Luminoso from a
geographers standpoint. Analyses the ability of the Call #: G1 .G35 |
Burt, Jo-Marie and Jose Lopez Ricci. "Shining Path After Guzmán." NACLA Report on the Americas 28/3 (Nov-Dec 1994): 6-9.
Discusses the future of Sendero Luminoso after Guzmán began calling for peace talks with the Peruvian government one year after his capture. Sendero continues under the leadership of Oscar Ramirez Durand, known as "Comrade Feliciano". Although the violence in the country has decreased drastically, Sendero still strikes periodically.
Call #: F1401 .N58
Location: Davis Library, 4th floor.
InfoTrac: Expanded Academic ASAP, full text.
Izaguirre, Carlos Reyna. "Shining Path in the 21st Century." NACLA Report on the Americas 30/1 (Jul-Aug 1996): 37-38.
More observations on Sendero under "Comrade Feliciano." Notes that although the group has suffered many setbacks it hopes to sustain the organization.
Call #: F1401 .N58
Location: Davis Library, 4th
floor
InfoTrac: Expanded Academic Index, full text.
Chavin, Lucien O. "Peru's
Other Guerrillas Try to Regroup." NotiSur Latin American
Affairs (28 Feb 1997).
Sendero is not used to being in the shadows nor sharing the limelight, especially with another guerrilla group one which they consider to be reformist. But after the takeover of the Japanese residence by Tupac Amaru, all eyes were turned away from Sendero. Chavin looks at past violent habits of Sendero and considers the possibilities of Sendero regrouping.
Location: Davis Library, Reference Area, CD-ROM, Latin American Data Base, full text.
"Shining Again: Peru." The Economist 345/8040 (25 Oct 1997): 34.
Brief, but very recent article on violence in Oct. 1997 committed by Sendero. States that some analysts see this outbreak of violence as part of a two-year plan to regroup.
Call #: AP2 .N2
Location: Davis Library, Current issues
in Serials, previous issues bound in stacks (2nd floor).
InfoTrac, Expanded Academic ASAP, full text.
Journal of Interamerican
Studies and World Affairs Call #:
F1401 .J68
Location: Davis Library, 4th floor.
Journal of Latin American
Studies Call #: F1401
.J69 [From v. 29 (1997) in print form]
Location: Davis Library, 4th floor. Many articles available full-text on
InfoTrac.
Latin American Research Review Call #: F1401 .L345
Location: Davis Library, 4th floor.
NACLA Report on the Americas Call #: F1401 .N58
Location: Davis Library, 4th floor. Many articles available full-text on
InfoTrac.
Third World Quarterly Call #: HC59.7 .T458
Location: Davis Library, 5th floor.
Recommended Electronic Journal: This e-journal can be accessed from the On-Line Catalogs and Services of UNC-CH under Electronic Journals. (Access is restricted to UNC-CH campus computers only.)
Human Rights Quarterly
ABSTRACTS / INDEXES
The abstracts and indexes below provide listings to literature and journal articles available about Sendero Luminoso. The majority of these resources are available electronically in the information commons of Davis Library.
Search strategies: The descriptors (equivalent to the Library of Congress Subject Headings) vary among different abstracts and indexes, although most do include "Sendero Luminoso" and "Peru" as major descriptors. Doing a search for "Sendero Luminoso" yields many results related to the topic. It is advisable to also do a keyword search using Boolean operators (and, or, not) and a variety of the following terms: Sendero, Luminoso, Shining, Path, Peru, Guerrilla(s), Terrorism, Guzman. Words can be truncated using "*" and "?". See the help screens for more detailed information specifically related to each abstract or index.
Abstracts and Indexes locally
loaded on the Davis Network: These can
be used from campus library computers only. From the UNC-CH On-Line Catalog scroll
to Library-Specific Electronic Resources and click on Davis Library to
arrive at Davis Library Networked
CD-ROMS.
Historical Abstracts
PAIS International - Public Affairs Information Service
New York Times - from Jan 1993-Sept 1997 full-text. Excellent for
up-to-date articles on the recent situation in
Peru. [For articles prior to 1993 see the New York Times Index (Call # AI21
.N44, Davis
Reference, Row 13) for the microfilm number.]
Other Electronic Resources:
InfoTrac - a service which provides its own index - the Expanded
Academic ASAP. Including access to the
backfiles, it has listings from 1980-Dec. 1997. Many articles are full-text.
Latin American Studies Disk - A two volume CD-ROM available in the Reference Area of
Davis Library. It
is not locally-loaded; it must be manually loaded.